With Dennis Schroder gone, Ben Simmons is the brand new level guard working the present.
And the Nets ran Monday — simply not nicely.
The Nets are going to should depend on tempo to win video games.
However they have been reckless, sloppy and turnover-prone, and it value them in a 130-101 loss to Cleveland.
“I think it’s just reading the game. When you speed up, you’re gonna have more errors,” Simmons stated. “However that’s on me to only know the place my guys are gonna be and caring for the ball as a degree guard.
“There’s more opportunity for me now, just being at that point guard position. So just finding my ways. I’m gonna go talk to coach about some different looks and things like that that I see out there. So, yeah.”
Simmons had 10 factors and eight assists in a season-high 31 minutes.
However he had six of the Nets’ unpleasant 22 turnovers, which the Cavs changed into 34 factors.
In shifting Schroder, the Nets misplaced their vocal chief and ground normal.
Simmons will assume the latter accountability, however he’s a complete completely different sort of normal.
The Nets are going to overlook Schroder’s scoring and playmaking, a lot of each popping out of pick-and-roll conditions.
Whereas he was forming a strong tandem with roll males like Nic Claxton, Simmons may have spacing issues with him as the middle completed a horrid minus-24.
Trendon Watford was compelled out of the sport with a left hamstring harm, the identical one he’d pulled earlier than.
